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Places are filling up fast at our next Actuator Series session on Project Management for Medical Researchers: From the Petri Dish to the Gantt Chart on Thursday 15 March at ECU Mount Lawley, at 5:30pm - see our Eventbrite page for further details and to register.
We're fortunate to have some amazing speakers taking part, including two former SPARKees, who will be sharing their insights on this key foundational skill for any start-up or entrepreneur. Read on to find out more.
Dr Michael

We're very excited to be getting underway with the first of our Actuator Series of lectures, discussion sessions and mentor panels, on the topic of IP Strategy for Medical Researchers - Beyond the Basics, taking place at Innovation Central, Curtin University on Thursday 1 March.
It goes without saying that these and any of the sessions we present would not be possible without the support of all our volunteer mentors, who are experts in their fields from across Perth and Australia's life

SPARK Co-Lab's Actuator Series is officially underway following a successful launch event hosted by the City of Perth at Council House on 21 February.
Thank you to everyone who attended the launch event, and more importantly stayed to network after the official proceedings were over, to catch up, connect and brainstorm ways to make sure this great initiative got off to the best possible start!
Particular thanks go to our event hosts and major sponsor the City of Perth, as well as the Lord

Lewis Dawson, Sarah McGarry, Arjun Kaushik and Michael Challenor were the winners of SPARK Co-Lab's 2016 Design Course. Now, just over 12 months after completing the course, we sat down to talk about their SPARK Co-Lab experience and their start-up Iris Biomedical.
After completing the Design Course in 2016, the team decided to incorporate their new company. Since then, they have continued their learning and development through participation in the Australian Technologies Competition where

What happens when you bring together a cardiologist, a clinical nurse, a data scientist, an engineer and a PhD student – all with a keen interest in developing commercialisation, entrepreneurship and problem solving skills? GIffy Tech!!

Alumni Insights:
SPARK Co-Lab Design Course 2017 participant Martina Mariano, Biacor
Martina Mariano started her SPARK Co-Lab experience as a first year Ph.D. student, as a member of 2017 Design Course Pitch Night runners up Biacor. Strongly motivated to make an impact in the world through her scientific knowledge acquired over years of study and work, she was unsure of how to turn this desire into clinical reality.
As a result of her participation in the 2017 SPARK Co-Lab Design

Huge thanks to our friends at Accelerating Australia, presenting partner of SPARK Co-Lab's 2017 Design Course, for the detailed case study on our 2017 Design Course Pitch Night winners NIMo. Read it in full on the Accelerating Australia website at https://www.acceleratingaustralia.com/news-and-events/nimo-wins-innovation-central-award-at-west-tech-fest/, otherwise read on for excerpts.
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It’s hard to believe the NIMo team only met for the first time in May 2017, when the SPARK Co-Lab Design

If you're heading to West Tech Fest 2017 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Perth on Thursday 7 December, make sure you come by and say hi to the SPARK Co-Lab team. Along with a number of our friends and partners from across the SPARK Co-Lab ecosystem, we'll be in the Exhibition Village during the event's official lunch break, from 12:20-1:20pm, ready to share more about all things innovation in the medical and biotech space, including our upcoming course offering the Actuator Lecture Series (coming

We're excited to share that SPARK Co-Lab founder Kath Giles has been selected as a member of the Australian delegation to the Eighth Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), taking place in Hyderabad, India this week (28-30 November 2017).